Legal News Line reports: Delaware state legislators and Attorney General Matt Denn on Friday announced four bills that he says will help strengthen privacy laws when it comes to the Internet and social media. … The bills would tackle four different areas of online activity including: a Victim Online Privacy Act, a Delaware Online Privacy and…
Category: Youth & Schools
House Education still has a ways to go on data privacy bill
Todd Engdahl reports: A rare Friday session of the House Education Committee aired parent concerns about the privacy of student educational data, but committee decisions on a key data bill won’t come until next week. Senate Bill 15-173 passed the Senate unanimously more than a month ago, and since then a lot of behind-the-scenes lobbying…
Despite Student Concerns, College Says BSC Move Will Not Affect Privacy
Melissa C. Rodman of the Harvard Crimson reports: Students have raised concerns that the Bureau of Study Counsel’s administrative move to the College’s purview may compromise their privacy, but the College maintains that it will not. Administrators will not use information gathered from students’ meetings with BSC counselors for disciplinary purposes, Faculty of Arts and Sciences…
Regulating Student Data Privacy: Don’t Throw the Baby out with the Bathwater
Amelia Vance, Director of Education Data and Technology for the National Association of State Boards of Education writes: Experts predicted that student data privacy would be a major issue in 2015, and they were right: As of March 26, state legislatures in 41 states had introduced a combined 160 student privacy bills, more than the…